Scope and content Album consisting mainly of photographs taken by then Lieutenant Helen M. Holcomb; contents include 494 of her photographs, 25 commercially printed photographs, 96 postcards, and an additional 18 photos and some ephemera laid in. Photographs document the entire period of Holcomb's Army training and service, including shots of Omaha Beach, the hospital at Bolleville, candid shots of nurses washing their hair and clothes using helmets as basins, daily life for residents and soldiers in France...